Word of the Year 2026 Quiz
Fifteen questions on the 2026 Words of the Year announced so far (maxxing, Ragebait) and the 2025 picks, with the answers listed below the quiz for teachers.
The Word of the Year 2026 quiz has 15 questions on the picks announced by 2 November 2026: Dictionary.com chose maxxing on 25 October 2026 and Germany's Jugendwort is Ragebait, plus the 2025 picks such as 67, rage bait and parasocial.
Word of the Year 2026 Quiz
- Which word did Dictionary.com name its 2026 Word of the Year?
- Unc
- Maxxing
- Affordability
- Odyssey
- On what date did Dictionary.com announce its 2026 Word of the Year?
- 10 October 2026
- 1 December 2026
- 25 October 2026
- 15 December 2026
- Which of these was NOT on Dictionary.com's 2026 shortlist?
- Data center
- Unc
- Affordability
- Rage bait
- According to Dictionary.com, what is the earliest "-maxxing" word?
- Looksmaxxing
- Sleepmaxxing
- Cozymaxxing
- Tokenmaxxing
- "Unc", on Dictionary.com's 2026 shortlist, is slang for…
- A close friend
- An out-of-touch older person
- A lucky win
- A bad haircut
- What is Germany's youth word of the year (Jugendwort) for 2026?
- Peak
- Crashout
- Aura
- Ragebait
- Which publisher runs the Jugendwort des Jahres?
- Langenscheidt
- Duden
- Goethe-Institut
- ZDF
- Which two words were the other Jugendwort 2026 finalists?
- Aura and Cringe
- Crashout and Peak
- Slay and Rizz
- Unc and Maxxing
- What was Dictionary.com's 2025 Word of the Year?
- Slop
- Parasocial
- 67
- Vibe coding
- What was Oxford's 2025 Word of the Year?
- Brain rot
- Rage bait
- Rizz
- Vibe coding
- What was Cambridge Dictionary's 2025 Word of the Year?
- Parasocial
- Manifest
- Slop
- Delulu
- Which dictionary announced its 2025 word last, on 15 December 2025?
- Collins
- Dictionary.com
- Cambridge
- Merriam-Webster
- Which word topped Lake Superior State University's Banished Words List, published on 1 January 2026?
- Demure
- Cooked
- 6-7
- Slop
- What did children vote the Oxford Children's Word of the Year for 2025?
- Kindness
- AI
- Six-seven
- Peace
- In the same Oxford children's vote, which word did almost half the children choose as their slang word of the year?
- Six-seven
- Aura
- Delulu
- Skibidi
How to read the result
- Not yet in the loop (up to 5): Read the Word of the Year 2026 tracker, then try again.
- Following along (6–10): You know the big picks. The dates and shortlists are where the points are.
- Well read (11–13): You could run this quiz yourself.
- Lexicographer (14–15): Every answer right. Collins, Cambridge and Oxford are still to come.
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What are the answers?
1 Maxxing. 2 25 October 2026. 3 Rage bait (the shortlist was affordability, data center, odyssey and unc). 4 Looksmaxxing. 5 An out-of-touch older person. 6 Ragebait. 7 Langenscheidt. 8 Crashout and Peak. 9 67. 10 Rage bait. 11 Parasocial. 12 Merriam-Webster (slop). 13 6-7. 14 Peace. 15 Six-seven.
Where do the answers come from?
Dictionary.com's 2025 and 2026 Word of the Year pages, Langenscheidt's Jugendwort page and ZDFheute, Oxford University Press (rage bait; peace as Children's Word of the Year, 21 January 2026), the University of Cambridge (parasocial, 18 November 2025), the Associated Press (Merriam-Webster's slop, 15 December 2025) and Lake Superior State University (Banished Words List, 1 January 2026). Each is linked in the Word of the Year 2026 tracker.
Can I use this quiz in class?
Yes. It needs no account. Print the page for the answer key, or embed the quiz with the embed code on this page.
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